Carbon Emissions: Out of the Air, Into the Ground
The energy company NRG aims to capture and bury harmful emissions from burning coal at a Houston plant. Photo by Dave Fehling/StateImpact TexasAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
By Dave Fehling, StateImpact Texas
Texas leads the nation in making and using electricity. Which also means Texas is a leader in the air pollution from all those power plants. But now there may be a way to reduce some of that pollution by making it disappear underground. For StateImpact Texas, Dave Fehling reports on carbon capture — capturing the carbon dioxide that otherwise would go out the smokestacks.
The approach NRG is taking is to retrofit older coal plants both to clean them up primarily, but also to avoid the large capital costs associated with building more plants.
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